Quotes About Performance

I think Formula One is extremely difficult, obviously, and it's the best drivers in the world so it's not easy to jump in and be on your top level immediately.

It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

I can 100 percent compete at the top level in every game that I play.

When you do well for a team like Everton, it's easier to go into a top team and establish yourself.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

To be the best in the Heineken Cup or the Top 14 you've got to win home and away.

What I like to see is people like Beyonce. Here is a woman who is bling-a-ding. Not only does she look like that and act like that - I've seen her perform, and I was blown away - but she is at the top of her profession.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

I think Carrot Top is hilarious.

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

Acting opposite big heroes has worked well for my career. Hence, I have decided to do films that have top-notch actors as people take notice of my acting talent too.

Acting is about portraying something... that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a topic.

In PhD, my topic was Stage Techniques in Sanskrit Drama - theory and practice. I wanted to combine my drama training with Sanskrit drama, which has a very rich history in literature.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

What matters is the team and all of us being focused on what we need to focus on, which is winning games, rather than contracts or any topics that can be a distraction. What matters is focusing on football.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

The WWE is the NFL or the Premier League - it is the top of the tops.

I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.

When I'm struck by things, I want to hear more and find out more. I remember when Lana Del Rey was on 'SNL,' this supposedly disastrous performance. She's doing this pretentious torch song, and I thought, 'I don't know what she's doing, but it's really moving me.'

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.